Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1970s – Part II (1975-1979)

Love the Maxwell Davies (so much good shit with his Fires of London ensemble), Birtwhistle. I've been reading some Geoffrey Hill for the last couple of days and you could conclude that England were produce some very good, serious art (and that's discounting the stuff coming out of pop and plastic arts) right at this time.

Dutilleux, Vivier, Rzewski and Lachenmann are the other ones I've enjoyed a lot from.

Pulled out the Dylla disc and, yep, that's a great recording of the sonata, so precise while taking those faster movements at quite a clip.

Last minute vote for Lachenmann, if only because I appreciated the incentive to dig it out for the first time in ages.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Sorry, Ginastera.

That said, the winner p much always feels like the best music ever written when it's on.

Though that also applied for Schnittke, Vivier, Dutilleux, Ustvolskaya... This was pretty hard.

(XP) Cool that my Schnittke choice, at least, got some love.

I was the Schnittke voter :) I hadn't voted after all, and that Schnittke was the last thing I listened to last night, and it was spooky and sinister enough to pull my vote. Coro came close, as did Why Patterns?

It's ok, American minimalists are about to fly out the window anyway.

Sweet turnout btw.

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1980s – Part I (1980-1984)

can't argue with that. so much great stuff on this list. listened to the rzewski on election day while travelling through the rain to get the vote out, felt suitably tragic and defiant

Arvo got split too much, but good showing

I did vote for norgard but then I listened to the Ginastera sonata and wished I’d voted for it.

Sort of :( and :) at the same time.

Glad I voted for it now!

The Juniper Tree is from this period too, here is an excerpt. One of the great pieces; Richard Emskey composed really great things over a very short period.

https://youtu.be/_C80QJmtky8

Kinda sad Rzewski never got any votes.

Maxwell Davies' Aves Maria Stella is another classic from this period

His masterpiece imo, and the ideal balance between his early provocateur aesthetic (which I favour) and his sadly underwhelming transformation into an elder statesman of British music. The Fires of London recording is canonical, but I quite like Gemini's as well, if only for its engineering, which really brings out the work's tightly woven strands.

Late 70s is when Donatoni got going:

https://youtu.be/ZI7MEnElhOc

Do you like Kagel, Pom? Went through a few threads but don't remember you listing anything..

Afraid not. My ears are impervious to his music. Ludwig van (the film) is kind of great, though.

Ok, yeah he gets that reaction a lot of the time. Never seen that film